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The conquest of Florida: Volume 1

Table of Contents

Title Page
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Dedication
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Preface
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Chapter I: First Discovery of Florida
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Chapter II: The Expedition of Pamphilo de Narvaez
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Chapter III: Hernando de Soto - His Birth - Adventures in Peru - Fits Out an Armament for Florida - Touches at the Canary Islands - Arrival at Cuba
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Chapter IV: Rejoicings of the Inhabitants of Cuba on the Arrival of De Soto. Deposition of Nuno Tobar. Don Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa, Appointed Lieutenant General of the Forces.
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Chapter V: Juan de Anasco Twice Dispatched to Florida. His Narrow Escape and Safe Return. Final Preparations of the Governor.
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Chapter VI: De Soto Meets With an Old Comrade, Hernan Ponce - Much Against the Will of the Latter.
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Chapter VII: The Armament Sets Sail From Cuba. Arrival and Landing in Florida. Exploit of Vasco Porcallo. They Come Upon the First Traces of Pamphilo de Narvaez.
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Chapter VIII: Story of Ortiz
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Chapter IX: Baltazar de Gallegos Dispatched in Search of Juan Ortiz. The Cacique Mucozo, and Afterwards His Mother, Visit the Spanish Camp.
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Chapter X: The Governor Endeavours to Gain the Friendship of the Stern Cacique of Hirrihigua - Gallegos dispatched on an Expedition to the Village of Urribarracaxi - He Hears of a Region to the Westward Abounding in Gold.
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Chapter XI: The Expedition of the Veteran Vasco Porcallo in Quest of the Cacique Hirrihigua, and How He Fared in a Swamp.
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Chapter XII: De Soto Leaves Pedro Calderon With a Garrison in Hirrihigua and Sets Out on His March into the Interior - the Difficulties He Encountered - Gonzalo Silvestre Sent Back With a Message to Calderon.
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Chapter XIII: The Perilous Journey of Gonzalo Silvestre, and His Friend, Juan Lopez.
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Chapter XIV: Thirty Lances Sally Forth With Supplies for the Governor. The Haughty Speech of the Cacique Acuera.
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Chapter XV: The Governor Arrives in the Province of Ocali. Occurrences There.
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Chapter XVI: The Fate of the Greyhound
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Chapter XVII: The Spaniards Enter the Vast Province of Vitachuco. Their Reception There.
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Chapter XVIII: Haughty Message of the Cacique Vitachuco.
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Chapter XIX: The Cacique Vitachuco Dissembles - His Plot to Destroy the Spaniards.
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Chapter XX: Battle With Vitachuco
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Chapter XXI: Death of Vitachuco and His Warriors.
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Chapter XXII: The Army Pass Through the Province of Osachile. Come to a Vast Morass. Severe Skirmishing With the Savages. Preparations to Cross the Great Morass.
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Chapter XXIII: Of the Perilous Passage of the Great Morass.
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Chapter XXIV: The Indians Make a Desperate Stand at a Deep Stream. The Spaniards Gain the Pass and Arrive at the Indian Village of Anhayea, in the Province of Apalachee.
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Chapter XXV: Juan de Anasco Sets Out in Search of the Ocean - the Adventures He Met With By the Way.
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Chapter XXVI: Juan de Anasco Arrives at the Bay, Where He Finds Traces of Pamphilo de Narvaez.
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Chapter XXVII: The Expedition of Juan de Anasco and His Band of Thirty Troopers.
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Chapter XXVIII: Continuation of the Bold and Perilous Expedition of Juan de Anasco, and His Thirty Lances.
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Chapter XXIX: De Sotos Enterprise Against the Cacique of Capafi.
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Chapter XXX: Singular Escape of the Cacique Capafi.
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Chapter XXXI: Continuation of the Expedition of Juan de Anasco and His Thirty Lances, and What Further Befell Them.
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Chapter XXXII: Passage of the Great Morass. The Troopers Suffer From Extreme Cold. The Vexation of Gomez Arias.
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Chapter XXXIII: They Capture Some of the Natives. Perplexed With Fears for the Safety of the Garrison at Hirrihigua. Their Arrival Home.
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Chapter XXXIV: Anasco Sails in Quest of the Bay of Aute. Gomez Arias Embarks for the Havana; and Calderon Prepares to March to Join the Army.
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Chapter XXXV: Breaking Up of the Garrison at Hirrihigua. Pedro Calderon Sets Out to Rejoin the Governor. Desperate Conflict With the Natives in Crossing the Great Swamp.
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Chapter XXXVI: Fierce Struggle With the Natives at the Passage of a Stream. Arrival at the Village of Apalachee.
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Chapter XXXVII: The Exploring Expedition of Diego Maldonado.
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Chapter XXXVIII: Strange Adventures That Befell the Spaniards While Wintering in Apalachee.
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Chapter XXXIX: Tidings of a Gold Region. The Spaniards Break Up Their Winter Cantonment. A Fatal Encounter.
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Chapter XL: Reception of the Spaniards By the Natives of Atapaha. Their Arrival at the Province of Cofa, and What Happened There.
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Chapter XLI: Reception of the Army by the Cacique. Preparations for Penetrating to the Province of Cofachiqui.
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Chapter XLII: Some Account of the Chieftain Patofa. The Indian Boy Pedro Has a Marvellous Visitation.
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Chapter XLIII: The Desertion of an Indian, and How He Was Punished. The Army Lost in a Trackless Wilderness.
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Chapter XLIV: Parties Dispatched in Different Directions to Seek Some Outlet to This Wilderness. Sufferings of the Army for Want of Food. Success of Juan de Anascos Expedition.
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Chapter XLV: The Half Famished Army Revived By the Tidings of Anascos Discovery of an Abundant Region. The Ravages Committed by Patofa and His Warriors. De Sotos Reception By the Beautiful Princess of Cofachiqui.
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Chapter XLVI: The Army Quartered in the Village of the Young Princess. Anasco Dispatched After a Certain Rich Window. Some Account of the Young Warrior By Whom He Was Guided.
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Chapter XLVII: The Melancholy Fate of the Young Indian Guide. Anasco Makes Another Attempt to Capture the Old Princess.
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Chapter XLVIII: Disappointment of the Spaniards With Respect to Gold. The Treasure They Find. They Discover Some European Relics.
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Contents of Volume I.
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